There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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